The Dear Dear Chronicles

By Brian Kelly

Mrs. Ann Pauline Flannery, 79, a resident of West Pittston, formerly of Wilkes-Barre's East End neighborhood, passed into Eternal Life peacefully early the morning of Wednesday, December 27th while in the care of Highland Manor Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, Exeter, following a short but brave battle with cancer. She was best known as "Nancy" to those who knew and loved her.

     Born on Saturday, July 22, 1944, in Wilkes-Barre, she was one of five children to the late Edward and Irene (McKeown) Kelly.  Nancy felt the calling of the Lord though, young to the convent, and moved away to attend and later became a graduate of the Immaculata High School in New Jersey. After high school, she continued the path of education to fulfill her calling, but a family issue brought her permanently back home to the Wyoming Valley. If it weren't for this fateful change of life events, Miss Kelly would never have met her future husband and become Mrs. James Flannery, eventually having eight beautiful children together. The Lord works in mysterious ways indeed!  For the rest of her life though, Ann held her Sisters from the convent close to her heart and considered many her very best friends. She furthered her education toward her vocation by becoming a 1986 graduate of the Wilkes-Barre Area Vocational Technical School of Nursing.

     Until her formal retirement, Mrs. Flannery served as a Licensed Practical Nurse for the Community Living Center at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Wilkes-Barre, for 30 years. Previously, she had taught 2nd grade at St. Boniface School in Wilkes-Barre.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brian Kelly
• Release date: Jan 15, 2024
• ISBN: 9781951562915

Brian Kelly

Brian Kelly is an avid sports fan, especially cootball, He has written over eighty sports books and 290 books in many other genres. Kelly graduated from King's College with an MBA from Wilkes University. He  is presently a retired Assistant Professor from Marywood University. He is the most published non-fiction author in America with 295 books, plus hundreds of articles. He is a frequent speaker at national computer technology conferences. Brian thoroughly enjoyed writing this book.

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Chapter 1  Oct. 25, 2023,  The Prayer Book

Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 05:29:03 -0400

To: nancy

From: Brian W. Kelly

Subject: I love the prayer book you sent me Nancy.  Thank You

Thank you Dear:

You are a special person my Dear Sister Nancy.

Thank you so much for the marvelous gift of My Saint Jude Prayer Book & Other Catholic Devotions.

It is perfect.

Ask and you shall receive.

When we opened our Anniversary Gifts, Pat was kind enough to rip into the envelope from Wyoming, PA, and she unearthed your beautiful gift to me, which is now as God intended, a gift to the two of us.

Pat could not put it down.

She loves all of the great items packed in that handsome booklet of St. Jude.

Sometimes we may feel our causes are lost and hopeless and this is a great book to help us cope with life and be more spiritual.

I love it.

Dear Nancy,

I know there is no payment at all for a gift from a DEAR heart..

Thank you very much.

I should have responded yesterday but every day is not a good one for me—but I have great hope. I would like to pay you back in a way you would accept.

If you can rediscover where you got this wonderful booklet, I would like to buy copies and copies over time and give them to mostly souls within our family as we can all use a lift from God and the Dominicans. Do you have one for yourself?

I love you my little mommy and thank you so much for this treasure. Pat thanks you also as she has the booklet on the counter between the family room and the dinette so it can be viewed by passers-by when we are not in the process of reading it ourselves.

I am overjoyed. Thank you my precious sister.

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A Dialog with Dominican Friars

To: Fr. John Paul Kern, O.P.

From: Brian W. Kelly

Subject: Re: Thank You for Your Interest in the Dominican Friars!

Do you sell the St. Jude Prayerbook?  It is excellent. Thank you

At 05:16 AM 10/6/2023, you wrote:

Dominican Friars Foundation

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DOMINICAN FRIARS FOUNDATION

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Dear Brian,

Thank you for signing up for email communications from the Dominican Friars Foundation!

I want to take this opportunity to welcome you and to give you an understanding of the core mission of the Order of Preachers (as the Dominican Order is also known).

The Order of Preachers, from its foundation in AD 1216, responded to an existential threat to the Church and the culture amidst chaotic circumstances. St. Dominic, known as the Light of the Church, rose to the challenge when a dangerous heresy, Albigensianism, threatened Europe's Christian concept of the sanctity of ordinary human life.

In facing this threat, St. Dominic started a band of brothers living in the simplicity of the first Apostles. The first Dominican friars were rooted in faith in God's Providence and therefore willing to improvise in new and dynamic ways. They spread the Gospel by uniting faith and reason, boldly taking the fight to the brand new intellectual centers of Europe, the universities.

The result was that St. Dominic and his friars were able to bring many lost souls back onto the path of Truth and away from the brink of the abyss.

Today, with over 60 men in formation, the Dominican Province of St. Joseph is the fastest growing men's religious community in the country. These men were educated at top institutions of higher learning and many have left promising careers in finance, law, medicine, and the sciences to answer God's call to preach the Gospel for the salvation of souls.

Ordained to the priesthood after seven years of rigorous training, they are sent out to universities, parishes, and into the public square to make a compelling case for the basic rationality of belief in the existence of God, His ordered creation of the world, and His offer of salvation through the death and resurrection of his Divine Son, Jesus Christ.

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Another way you can become involved is by reading how the friars are engaging the culture:

Friars Serving In Healthcare Quarantine to Protect Vulnerable Flock

Hope after Abortion: an Interview with Fr. James Brent, O.P.

Faith, Reason, and Baseball: An Interview with Fr. Humbert Kilanowski, O.P.

The Dominican Friars and Civil Engagement

Preaching God’s Unchanging Love on Campus

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